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- Dictionarytroll/trɒl/
noun
- 1. a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post: "one solution is to make a troll's postings invisible to the rest of community once they've been recognized"
- 2. a line or bait used in trolling for fish.
verb
- 1. make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them: "if people are obviously trolling then I'll delete your posts and do my best to ban you"
- 2. carefully and systematically search an area for something: "a group of companies trolling for partnership opportunities"
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Dec 15, 2020 · Hi all, In the Christmas song "deck the halls" there's a line that goes: "Troll the ancient Yule-tide carol". What does the word "Troll" mean in that context? Is it referring to the famous Scandinavian Troll creature? Thanks, Ami
Oct 30, 2008 · The Internet term "to troll" possibly mixes the original meaning with "trawl", and to act like the mythical troll (i.e. be obnoxious), but I doubt that sense is intended here. Puellam audiam Senior Member
Hello, all I ran into this topic expression, troll on, at a comment box in an online baseball community. A member used it to another member as follows. It must suck that your life is so boring and dull that you have to troll on a Korean baseball group to find enjoyment in life. My pure guess...
Mar 4, 2015 · In the play "Peer Gynt" by Ibsen, there is an exchange between the Troll King and protagonist Peer Gynt: Under the skies men have a common saying: "Man, to thyself be true!" But here, 'mongst Trolls, "Troll, to thyself be - enough!" it runs. Among the translations I have found for "to...
Oct 28, 2017 · Just a warning: there is also a type of person you "meet" on some websites called a troll. This is quite different. Trolls are monsters in Scandinavial folklore who do ambush travellers by hiding, especially under bridges, and then jump out and eat them. An internet troll is someone who deliberately angers other participants with teasing or ...
Feb 10, 2005 · Dork, even though my mother couldn't stand the word because of it's original meaning, refers to someone who is being intentionally silly or unintentionally. And of course as mentioned before, "geek" has taken on a cyber meaning. As a teacher, students still use the terms interchangeably as a means of teasing one another.
Dec 21, 2021 · Cold-natured and hot-natured have nothing to do with physical temperature for me at all. Cold-natured = standoffish
Apr 7, 2015 · Therefore, you say, the meaning of "let" has changed. I can find you thousands of examples of "I could of {past participle}". Therefore, by the same logic, "I could of {past participle}" is a correct new verb form. Indeed, it would appear to have a better claim, by weight of numbers, than your new meaning of "let".
Dec 23, 2015 · Were it to have been Yiddish, "schlimazel" isn't really the meaning of schlong, either. It would be like: She got shmucked. schmuck Source: The Joys Of Yiddish, Leo Rosten, paper version, first definition: (.... about jewelry ....) 1. (Obscene) Penis I'm sure the Twittersphere and the Facebook Nation abound with research about "schlong".
May 17, 2013 · To can sometimes be used as a preposition of time with the same meaning as until/till . This happens after from ... I usually work from nine to five. (OR ...from nine until/till five.) We can also use to when counting the time until a future event. It's another three weeks to the holidays. (OR ... until/till the holidays .) < ---- >
